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"The golden era books-over". So begins the post Jeff Bercovici to Fortune.com before he is somewhat self-contrapuntally continues in the list of top earning the authors of the previous year, including James Patterson (84 million United States dollars), Daniel steel (35 million United States dollars) and Stephen King (28 million dollars for the United States).
In fact, convincing as the lede mount this book Bercovici, statistics, which he uses to back it up – that sales of adult books down 23%-this is somewhat, well, stupid. For the reasons I explained earlier, the measure of "books", based on the number of hardcover sales, measuring the popularity of the music, based on how many people buy tapes.
Once upon a time books were the only way that fans of the book can read new titles. This has allowed publishers to charge premium for a product — a big, glossy hardback book is really not much more expensive to produce than soft. Today, most publishers released ebook edition of the new name at the same time as hard. EBooks are cheaper, more portable, faster way for fans to get hold of their beloved author's latest work so this is a completely unremarkable hardcore book buyers are moving to this format. Of course, the hardback sales dipped in the past 12 months, but in the same period rose eBook sales. In terms of sales (up to 4.1% from 2008) and income (5.6% from 2008) American Publishers experienced a bumper year in the past year.
The good news doesn't stop there: the Kindle and the iPad, people who three years ago, will never be moved within 500 feet of the bookshop (and still is) can now buy the latest James Patterson as easy as downloading angry birds. People who were reading for fun now. That's nice.
Even more interesting Amazon extracted from amber DNA brochures and short stories (and maybe even serial novels) and give them a chance for a new life in the form of a Kindle singles. A number of publishers run — particularly Byliner whose name debut three cups of deception made headlines in April — began to read the public hunger for essays and Long form journalism in the form of ebook. Twelve months ago, long form journalism was alive fans — today, it thrives on Kindle bestseller list one. Hell Ars Technica made $ 15000 in one day after the publication of their consideration of some thing Apple or as a single.
So yes, that's thriving publishing industry, new formats, the dead formats returned from the grave and top flight writers make tens of millions of dollars a year, this is a stretch to argue that the golden era books ended. In addition it is significantly less stretch argue that the golden era books now.
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